ABSTRACT

Sexual citizenship is a powerful concept associated with debates about recognition and exclusion, agency, respect and accountability. For young people in general and for gender and sexually diverse youth in particular, these debates are entangled with broader imaginings of social transitions: from ‘child’ to ‘adult’and from ‘unreasonable subject’ to one ‘who can consent’. This international and interdisciplinary collection identifies and locates struggles for recognition and inclusion in particular contexts and at particular moments in time, recognising that sexual and gender diverse young people are neither entirely vulnerable nor self-reliant. 

Focusing on the numerous domains in which debates about youth, sexuality and citizenship are enacted and contested, Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship explores young people’s experiences in diverse but linked settings: in the family, at school and in college, in employment, in social media and through engagement with health services. Bookended by reflections from Jeffrey Weeks and and Susan Talburt, the book’s empirically grounded chapters also engage with the key debates outlined in it's scholarly introduction.

This innovative book is of interest to students and scholars of gender and sexuality, health and sex education, and youth studies, from a range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds, including sociology, education, nursing, social work and youth work.

 

part 1|2 pages

Kinship

chapter 1|22 pages

Family, kinship and citizenship

Change and continuity in LGBQ lives

chapter 2|16 pages

Queer interruptions

Policing belonging in the carceral state

chapter 3|5 pages

Reimagining, reclaiming, renaming

part 2|2 pages

Schooling and education

chapter 4|14 pages

Lawrence ‘Larry’ King and too muchness

Complicating sexual citizenship through the embodied practices of a queer/trans student of colour

chapter 5|15 pages

Beyond cultural racism

Challenges for an anti-racist sexual education for youth

chapter 6|14 pages

Regulating sexual morality

The stigmatisation of LGB youth in Hong Kong

part 3|2 pages

Well-being and health

chapter 8|16 pages

Sexualities education and sexual citizenship

A materialist approach

chapter 9|15 pages

Constraints and alliances

LGBTQ sexuality and the neo-liberal school

part 4|2 pages

Communication technologies

chapter 10|17 pages

Twenty years of ‘cyberqueer’

The enduring significance of the Internet for young LGBTIQ+ people

chapter 11|16 pages

Taking off the risk goggles

Exploring the intersection of young people’s sexual and digital citizenship in sexual health promotion

chapter 12|17 pages

Queer youth refugees and the pursuit of the happy object

Documentary, technology and vulnerability

part 5|2 pages

Work

chapter 13|14 pages

Young LGBTQ teachers

Work and sexual citizenship in contradictory times

chapter 14|15 pages

Gay, famous and working hard on YouTube

Influencers, queer microcelebrity publics and discursive activism

chapter 15|14 pages

Mediating aspirant religious-sexual futures

In God’s hands?

part 6|2 pages

Sex and gender/sexual relationships

chapter 16|16 pages

Enabling fluid forms of sexual citizenship?

Navigating the presence and absence of queer sex in Skins

chapter 17|15 pages

‘Some teachers are homophobic, you know, because they just don’t know any better’

Students reimagining power relations in schools

chapter |8 pages

Afterword

Youth and scenes of sexual citizenship